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Increase your calm, focus and happiness so you can be more relaxed, contented and satisfied with your life. For business, entrepreneurs, educators, parents. Hosted by Bruce Langford.
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Oct 12, 2016
Oct 12, 2016
34 min
Diane Daniels
is a professional speaker and host of two podcasts, Weight Loss Nation
& Medicare Nation. She has spoken on many radio programs including
The Senior Voice Radio show (Tampa), The Bev Smith Radio Show
(Washington D.C.) and The Financial Survival Network with Kerry Lutz. In
the area of health care, Diane collaborates with politicians and
national associations to advocate for her clients. Diane is determined
to lose weight and she decided to build a team and start a podcast to
not only inspire others, but also to be inspired. She is chatting with
me today as she continues on this weight loss journey. She has currently lost
25 pounds.
Contact Info
- Website: www.TheWeightlossNation.com
- Email: support@TheWeightlossNation.com
- Podcast: Weightloss Nation
Most Influential Person
- JJ Flizanes (Fit2Love Podcast and Resources)
[show-notes-influence]
Effect on Emotions
- Now
if I have frustration or anxiety, I do not have to reach for food. I
just sit for a moment, and think, why am I feeling this way. I just stay
in this moment and then I realize what it is. Then I see if I can solve
this problem. I stay in the moment and try to realize what it is.
Thoughts on Breathing
- I
am learning to improve in this area. I am good about taking in a deep
breath and letting it out. If I am frustrated or have anxiety, I will
just sit take a deep breath and let it out slowly for a few seconds.
It's amazing how that feeling [of anxiety or frustration] dissipates.
Suggested Resources
- Book: Plant Based Diets For Maximum Focus and Energy by Suzanna McGee
- App: My Diet Diary
Advice for Newbie
The first thing they have to do is admit that they're having an issue and they don't know what to do about it. You have to admit you have some kind of issue. Once you admit it, then you are open to looking for a solution and you're open for help. Once you've done that, like I did, then you can look out there and find someone else who's in the same situation as you. Someone who has the same like mindedness, who needs to do the same things. Whether you join a Facebook group, or you go online and participate in a program like Weight-Loss Nation or other types of programs. Find someone else who can be your buddy and can help each of you be accountable on your journey.
Oct 9, 2016
Oct 9, 2016
37 min
Jean Caton is a business coach specializing in helping women who are emerging leaders in STEM related careers. STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Jean blazed the trail as a women in Corporate America, specifically New York City in the 1980's. She finds that women moving into this STEM space can find the transition to be particularly challenging. Jean is also an expert at helping her clients establish confidence and she partners with professionals to help develop strategies for managing tough situations, difficult people, and high levels of overwhelm.
Contact Info
- Website: www.CoachJeanCaton.com
- Facebook/ColorMyWorldConfident
- Podcast: Color My World Confident
Most Influential Person
- Bruce Langford and Eckhart Tolle
Effect on Emotions
- It has calmed that intensity big time. I'm much more at ease with what I'm doing. Even if I'm busy and there's a lot going on I do it in a more easy way, just more flow. I have more calm and more flow. If I do start speeding in the mind, and going somewhere else, I know I can call on that and come back to it. Even just in my mind, I'm in the car, or with all the people or whatever, they don't know what's going on in my mind. I just focus a little bit on my breath and calm myself back down and reduce that intensity, kind of on the go.
Thoughts on Breathing
- I just focus a little bit on my breath and calm myself back down and reduce that intensity, kind of on the go.
Suggested Resources
- Book: Presence by Aimee Cuddy
- App: IPhone Timer (I set a nice quiet chime to go off)
Advice for Newbie
The most important thing is that if you are a woman experiencing overwhelm, you need to do something for yourself. The first thing you may say is, 'I don't have the time'. People get on a vicious cycle with looking after their children, husband, demanding job. Women have taken on these really big jobs in the last twenty or thirty years, but they didn't take away very much. They still try to be the perfect wife/mother and homemaker. I would say you must make time for your mindfulness and find a resource, listen to the Mindfulness Mode Podcast, or find any other mindfulness website or resource and just try it. Make the time. A lot of women do yoga, or other kinds of moving meditations or swimming. This will pay back a hundred fold.
Suggested Resources
Free Download - The 5 Mistakes Women Make That Cause Their Careers to Fail. Get it at www.CoachJeanCaton.com
Oct 5, 2016
Oct 5, 2016
31 min
Michael Glover works in the field of Holistic Health. He brings everything together into one whole package, including nutrition, sleep, stress management and the mental side that holds so many of us back. Michael is adamant that it takes way more than just a diet to make you a healthy person. Michael has been an introverted kind of guy most of his life, but he has a unique, off the wall sense of humor which means you’ll remember the concepts he teaches because of his very funny personality. Michael is also super mindful in his life and he integrates mindfulness into his health passion.
Contact Info
- Website: www.IAmMichaelGlover.com
- Facebook.com/TheMGlover
- Podcast: Enlightened Entrepreneurial Badasses
Most Influential Person
- Paul Chek, author of How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy
Effect on Emotions
- My emotions have been effect very positively. It's enabled me to believe that it's ok to express my emotions and not to suppress everything. Now I know it's not weak of me to have these emotions. I'm still a man, even though I might express emotion.
Thoughts on Breathing
- Breathing is what I use to keep myself focused on the present moment. It's a huge part of our health. If we have a poor breathing pattern, it can screw up a whole host of other things. Breathing is the only thing we can concentrate on right now, and it just reminds us that it's happening right now. I imagine my breath and I imagine the little particles of air going in and spreading throughout my body. This brings me to the present moment and to what's going on inside my body.
Suggested Resources
- Book: How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy by Paul Chek
- App: www.Brain.fm (This is a website, they don't have an actual app yet)
Oct 2, 2016
Oct 2, 2016
29 min
Aimee J. is a software developer, podcaster, speaker, and Chief Dream Chaser on the Chasing Dreams podcast. Aimee began podcasting in 2013 and has launched multiple podcasts including Revisiting Haven, which discusses the TV show, Haven. This project took Aimee to Nova Scotia, Canada to interview the cast & crew of Haven on location. With her latest podcast, Chasing Dreams, Aimee is working to inspire and motivate people to chase their own dreams. Aimee believes that it is important to live without regret and as such, you need to make moves, take a chance, and chase your dreams.
Contact Info
- Website: www.ChasingDreamsHQ.com
- Twitter & Instagram: AimeeJ21
- Facebook: official.AimeeJ21
- Podcast: Chasing Dreams
Most Influential Person
- My Dad
Effect on Emotions
- Mindfulness sets my mindset for the day. It can either settle it, or by not doing it, be anxious.
Thoughts on Breathing
- It's a good thing to do on a day-to-day basis. When overwhelmed, I take some time to just take deep breaths and let it out. I don't do it in public, I'll just step to the side and give myself time to reset.
Suggested Resources
- Book: Creating Magic Lee Cockerell (This is a wonderful book on leadership, but I recommend it for everyone)
- App: Wonderlist or Things or Fantastical (Any kind of To-Do list as a productivity assistant)
Advice for Newbie
Take it one moment at a time, meaning reflect upon yourself. Don't try to take on the whole world. Don't try to take on more than you should. Start with something simple, something you know. Try being mindful of yourself. What is your state of being, what is your world like at that moment and then go from there.
Sep 28, 2016
Sep 28, 2016
39 min
Andrea Klunder is a Meditation Facilitator for startup companies & creative individuals. She is the founder of Peace & Play Yoga for kiddos & grownups. Andrea integrates her background in music, theater and creativity to engage her students in a playful experience of peaceful practices, to help them become more mindful in their day-to-day living. Andrea is also Host of The Creative Impostor Podcast, a show all about how to get out of your head and take bold action. This show is all about dealing with that inner voice which says, “Who do you think you are? You can’t do THAT!”
Contact Info
- Website: www.TheCreativeImposter.com
- Facebook: AndreaKlunder.Creative
- Podcast: The Creative Imposter
Most Influential Person
- Sean Johnson of Wild Lotus Yoga and the Wild Lotus Band
Effect on Emotions
- It's [mindfulness] definitely helped me to not have so many peaks and valleys. I would say my first bout of depression that I ever had in my early thirties, when I closed my first business, a yoga studio which I had for five years, it really helped me to recognize that depression which was showing up for the first time ever in my life and to be able to experience it and move through it rather than getting sucked down into it.
Thoughts on Breathing
- Breathing is so important. When I originally was studying vocal music, we spent a lot of time in music classes learning how to breathe so that we can produce a certain quality of sound. When I stopped studying music, I sort of lost that connection to my breath. Coming back to the yoga and meditation practice, I was able to reconnect to that as the quickest tool to drop into when I find myself in a tricky situation.
Suggested Resources
- Book: How To Train A Wild Elephant by Jan Chozen Bays (It includes 52 exercises, one for each week of the year)
- App: Podcast App (To listen to Podcasts like Mindfulness Mode to help me stay in the mode)
Advice for Newbie
I would say to just resist the urge to get frustrated. I think there's a tendency to feel you're not doing it right or other people are doing it better than you or you're never going to be able to fit it in with all of the other things that you're doing. If you can just acknowledge that right in that moment as you're having the awareness that you feel frustrated, that you've just become more mindful in that moment of having that awareness of frustration. It's sort of like success.
Sep 25, 2016
Sep 25, 2016
38 min
Michelle Dutro is a Biofeedback Specialist and and is certified as a Life Coach in Strategic Intervention. She is also a Wellness Consultant, Hypnotherapist and Yoga Instructor. Michelle Dutro has figured out her life’s purpose, which is ‘to inspire you to believe that your life truly represents limitless possibility. She especially loves working with those who are living without a voice.
Contact Info
- Website: www.InnerNorthStar.com
- Podcast: The Game Changer
- Social Media FB, Twitter, SnapChat: Inner North Star
Most Influential Person
- Dr. Richard Millar - founder of irest, yoga nidra a form of guided meditation.
Effect on Emotions
- Mindfulness allows you to go from being reactionary to responding and there's a very big difference between the two. Mindfulness allows you to stay present, not react, come from the right place and not be triggered by past events that have nothing to do with the moment that you're currently in.
Thoughts on Breathing
- Breathing is a connectedness. It helps us to realize our thoughts that impact our breathing, when we're under stress. [Our breathing becomes] very shallow and rapid. When we control our breathing we control our body; we control our thoughts. It's a connectedness that we're all one, we're all whole, we are connected to the rest of the world in that same way. It's kind of a centering and a grounding practice that when things get a little bit lucy-goosy, focus on the breath, come back into your being and then start again.
Suggested Resources
- Book: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- App: Meditation Timer
Sep 21, 2016
Sep 21, 2016
33 min
Khaled Ghorab is passionate about relationships. He knows that healthy relationships make for happier people and in the workplace they boost productivity and ultimately the bottom line. Khaled calls himself a systems thinker and has worked as a consultant and coach as well as a leader of workshops. After traveling the world, reading hundreds of books, meeting tens of thousands of people and learning from the best mentors, Khaled feels aligned with himself and his mission and is determined to share with the world.
Contact Info
- Website: www.KhaledGhorab.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/KhaledGhorabOfficial
- SnapChat: GKappa
Most Influential Person
- My Dad
Effect on Emotions
- It keeps them in check. I feel like I have a deck of cards, some of these are emotions, some of these are thoughts. When I'm in mindfulness mode, I know which card to pull out.
Thoughts on Breathing
- I breathe from my belly. I learned something from Anthony Robbins called Priming, where I have to breathe rapidly from my belly to reach a very quiet place inside of me. This is something I practice in the morning. It is very powerful.
Suggested Resources
- Book: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
- App: Calm (One of the most beautiful apps I've ever tried)
Advice for Newbie
Mindfulness is a gateway to pure love. If you want to find that out, find out what's important to you first. Then you will open everything else up.
Sep 18, 2016
Sep 18, 2016
34 min
Jeremy Ryan Slate is an online Entrepreneur and Fitness Enthusiast. Jeremy pays regular visits to the gym where he has created the kind of sculpted body many men dream of. He is focused and centered on the kind of life he has decided to create for himself. He is also admired as host of the Podcast, Create Your Own Life and has interviewed such successful Entrepreneurs as Pat Flynn, John Lee Dumas and Bob Burg.
Contact Info
- Website: www.JeremyRyanSlate.com
- Podcast: Create Your Own Life
Most Influential Person
- L. Ron Hubard (Author of Dianetics)
Effect on Emotions
- I don't buy as much into them [emotions]. I think emotions are important to experience life. It's the channel of how we do it. I think sometimes we let it affect our decision making. I've learned to separate my emotions from my decision making and try and deal just with data.
Thoughts on Breathing
- I don't really have a way that breathing is a part of my mindfulness.
Suggested Resources
- Book: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubard
- App: Evernote (I like to write a lot and so I like to make notes when I'm out using this app).
Advice for Newbie
The big thing is learning to separate your emotions from your decision making. We make a lot of emotionally charged decisions and afterwards we either regret them or think they were incorrect. I think one of the biggest things for me to be able to just deal with, what do I see, what do I know. Sometimes we try to put our own 'think' into things rather than just observing what happened. The big thing is to observe and make your decision from data.
Sep 14, 2016
Sep 14, 2016
38 min
Nicholas and Amanda Bayerle are passionate about health, fitness and personal development and they both love helping people reach higher levels of fitness. They are also highly sought after speakers, specializing in boosting productivity, wellness, and showing businesses the positive return on investment of a healthy culture. Hosts of the popular podcast, How Bad Do I Want It, Nicholas and Amanda interview inspiring guests and share great coaching tips. Amanda and Nicholas both practice mindfulness on a daily basis.
Contact Info
- Website: www.TheTrueChallenge.com
- Facebook: Nicolas and Amanda Bayerle
- Snapchat: Amanda Bayerle / Nicholas Bayerle
- Instagram: Nicholas and Amanda Bayerle
Most Influential Person
- Drew Canole from FitLife
Effect on Emotions
- Mindfulness has totally affected our emotions through being able to control them. Your emotions don't control you. People think that they do. Once you become mindful, you can control your emotion and you can change your emotion whenever you want. We don't react to things anymore, we just chose what we want to do from there on out.
Thoughts on Breathing
- Every single day we are mindful of our breath. If you don't breathe, you die. It's literally the most important thing in our lives. We start out our day with a few minutes doing box breathing.
Suggested Resources
- Book: The Bible - Pick out a scripture that's full of faith and meditate on that all day.
- App: Amanda - My Notes - Higher thoughts come to me by being mindful so I just make note of them.
- App: Nicolas - Focus@Will
Sep 11, 2016
Sep 11, 2016
29 min
Stacy Brookman is a wordsmith. She’s loved words all her life and
excels at crafting words into clever phrases and fascinating stories.
Not only is Stacy amazing at her ability to create compelling stories,
but she is terrific at teaching this skill to others. Stacy’s language
abilities are enhanced by the fact that she understands the concept of using effective mindfulness tools to achieve focus and direction.
Stacy has a wonderful podcast called “Write of Your Life” with the tagline Life Happens … Life Storytelling Transforms It!
Contact Info
- Website: www.writeofyourlife.com
- Email: stacy@writeofyourlife.com
- Podcast: Write Of Your Life
Most Influential Person
- Anaïs Salibian, my memoir writing teacher and also practitioner of the Rosen Method of Trauma Recovery
Effect on Emotions
- Helped me be much more aware of my emotions rather than ignoring them and stuffing them down. It gets them out in the open where I can address them.
Thoughts on Breathing
- I breathe when the app tells me to breathe. It is very calming. (The HeadSpace App)
Suggested Resources
- Book: To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future by Dan B. Allender
- App: Headspace (Worth it to get the Pro version)
Advice for Newbie
You can do what I do. Lay down in the middle of the day even if you feel like you don't have a moment to spare. Turn on the mindfulness app, listen to ocean sounds or rain drop sounds and just quiet your mind. Think about what you're feeling and the sensations in your body.